Terms of Service
The short set of rules for using Detail.
Last updated 23 August 2026.
Detail (detail.design) is a personal project run by Rene Wang. Using the site means you accept what's on this page. If you don't, that's fine — reading stops here.
What Detail is
A curated library of interface details, plus the notes that go with them. Most of it is free to read without an account. Accounts exist so you can submit details, set a name and avatar, and get the newsletter.
It's a one-person project, published as-is. Nothing here is a paid service and nothing here carries an uptime promise.
Your account
You need to be 13 or older to create one, and you're responsible for what happens under it. Keep your email secure — anyone with access to your inbox can sign in as you, since sign-in is by Google or by an emailed code.
One account per person. Don't impersonate anyone else in your display name or avatar, and don't use an account you're not entitled to.
What you submit
Submissions — links, comments, screen recordings, screenshots — stay yours. You keep every right you had in them.
By submitting, you grant Detail a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce, adapt for format, and publish that material on the site and in the newsletter, with attribution where you asked for it. The licence lasts as long as the material is published; ask for something to come down and it comes down.
What you submit has to be yours to submit. Don't upload work you have no right to share, anything unlawful, anything designed to harass someone, or anything containing another person's private information. Recordings of publicly available interfaces, captured for commentary and critique, are the point of the site; wholesale reposting of someone else's video or article is not.
Nothing obliges the site to publish a submission, keep one published, or explain a decision either way.
What's on the site
The writing, the editorial notes, the layout, and the code are Rene Wang's, unless credited otherwise. Read it, quote it, link to it, teach from it. Don't republish whole pieces as your own or scrape the site to train or fill another product.
Using the site sensibly
Don't try to break into other people's accounts or into the site's infrastructure. Don't hammer the servers, scrape at a volume that degrades the site for others, or work around rate limits. Don't upload malware. Don't use Detail to do anything illegal where you are.
Third-party services
Sign-in, storage, hosting, and the newsletter run on Supabase, Vercel, Google, and Resend. Their terms apply to their part of the stack, and outages there are outages here. Links out to other people's sites are just links — they aren't endorsements, and what happens on the other side isn't Detail's to control.
No warranty
The site is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied — including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or uninterrupted availability. Editorial notes are opinions about craft, not professional advice. Pages can change, disappear, or be wrong.
Limits
To the fullest extent the law allows, Rene Wang is not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the site, or for lost data, lost profits, or lost time. Where liability can't be excluded, it's limited to the amount you've paid to use Detail — which, for the site itself, is nothing.
Some places don't allow these exclusions. Where that's true, they don't apply to you.
Changes
These terms can change. The date at the top moves when they do, and material changes get a note in the newsletter. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the new version.
The site itself can change too — features come and go, and any part of it can be discontinued.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws applicable where the operator resides, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Nothing here removes consumer protections you're entitled to under the law of the country you live in.